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Ellen Landgraf

Ellen Landgraf , CPA
Title: Associate Professor
Office #: 528
Phone: 312-915-7105
E-mail: elandgr@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991
  • M.B.A., Northern Illinois University, 1984
  • C.P.A. Certificate, 1976
  • B.B.A., Managerial Accounting, Loyola University of Chicago, 1974

Research Interests

  • Executive compensation
  • Corporate governance and social responsibility
  • Corporate Disclosure and Reputation
  • Ethics and Accounting

Professional Associations

  • ACFE-Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 
  • Illinois CPA Society (Ethics Committee-Appointed Member)
  • Financial Executives Institute (FEI)
  • AICPA, On Campus Champion

Professional Activities

  • Review of Accounting and Finance, Editorial Board Member and reviewer
  • ICPAS (Illinois CPA Society) Ethics Committee, appointed member

Awards

  • Outstanding Educator Award 2004, Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), 2004
  • President's Service Award, Financial Executives Institute (FEI), Chicago Chapter, 2004
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Loyola Undergraduate School of Business, 2003
  • Who's Who in Business Higher Education, 2003

Courses Taught

  • Undergraduate 
              Intermediate Accounting I   
              Auditing and Internal Control Systems
  • Graduate 
              Forensic Accounting and Fraud

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Review of Accounting Ethics," AAE (Academic Exchange Extra), October 2004 2004

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, 1993, Volume 12, pp. 131-189 2003 , Co-Authors: Peter Tiessen and Thomas Scott , Reprinted by The Corporate Governance Classical Literature, Research Center of Corporate Governance, University of China, Nankai, 2003

"Corporate Disclosure Quality and Corporate Reputation," Review of Accounting & Finance, Vol. 2 Number 1 2003 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"Management Ownership, Tenure and Performance: Evidence on the Incentive Hypothesis," Journal of Business and Ecomic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1 1995 , Co-Authors: Chandra Mishra

"The Effects of Ownership Structure on Value Added-Based Performance," Managerial Finance, Vol. 20, No. 9 1994 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"The Impact of Performance Plan Adoption on Value Added and Earnings," Managerial Finance, Vol. 20, No. 9 1994 , Co-Authors: Barbara Askren and James Bannister

"Effects of Ownership Structure, Firm Performance, Size and Diversification Strategy on CEO Compensation: A Path Analysis," Managerial Finance, Vol. 19, No. 2 1993 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, Vol. 12, pp. 131-189 1993 , Co-Authors: P. Tiessen, T. Scott , Reprinted by Corporate Governance, Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson, and Mike Wright, eds., 1999

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, Vol. 12 1993 , Co-Authors: Peter Tiessen and Thomas Scott

"Determinants of Executive Tenure in Large U.S. Firms," Managerial Finance, Vol. 19, No. 2 1993 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"The Effects of Ownership Structure and Diversification Strategy on Performance," Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol 13 1992 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui

"Asset Management Performance and Reputation Building for Large U.S. Firms," British Journal of Management, Vol. 2 1991 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Fraud Awareness and Compliance for Managers"," 2008 Intl. Fraud & Forensic Accounting Education Conference, May 10, 2008
"Ethics in Auditing-The Connection (or disconnnection)", "8th Annual CJBEC (Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Conference), July 24 2005
"Improving Student Research and Writing Skills"," 46th Annual IATC (Illinois Accounting Teachers Conference), October 21 2005

"Ethics in Auditing-The Connection (or disconnnection)"," 8th Annual CJBEC (Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Conference), July 24 2005

"The Future of Accounting - Why You May Want to be a CPA in an Accounting Firm in 2010," ICPAS (Illinois CPA Society and Website), 2001

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Accounting For Corporate Reputation (Quorum Books) , 1992 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Determinants of Executive Compensation: Corporate Ownership, Performance, Size and Diversification (Quorum Books) , 1991 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui

CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Stock Compensation," A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik eds., (contribution to Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting, Blackwell Publishers), 1997

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
"Corporate Annual Reports: A User's Guide," Development of End-of-Chapter materials, John Wiley and Sons 2003 , Co-Authors: Brian Stanko and Thomas Zeller
"Topics in Auditing-Spring 2002 (or ENRON couldn�t have happened at a better time)-Building a course around real world events," Illinois Accounting Teachers Conference, 2002